Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one, — Mary Tyler Moore
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascalâ€¦ like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. — Henry Adams
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — R. B. Braithwaite
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of… — Francis Crick
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays. — Philip J. Davis
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking… — Steven Landsburg
It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. — Paul Dirac
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in… — Paul Dirac
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face… — Susan Jacoby
Mathematicians are born, not made. — Henri Poincare
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the… — Henri Poincare
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great… — Henri Poincare
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner

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